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Hong Wu is an Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at Penn State's Stuckeman School, serving as Director of the Stormwater Living Lab and Co-Chair of the University Water Council. She specializes in green infrastructure systems, urban sustainability, and watershed management with a focus on climate resilience and ecosystem service provision. Her work bridges academic research with community engagement through participatory GIS and scenario planning.
Research interests include stormwater management strategies in mountainous cities, prescribed fire management in mid-Atlantic ecosystems, and socio-environmental equity in urban development. She leads projects funded by NSF, USDA, and EPA, including studies on sponge city frameworks in China and biodiversity-enhanced stormwater systems in Pennsylvania.
Recent projects highlight innovative tools like Rhodium-SWMM for infrastructure optimization under deep uncertainty and participatory approaches to urban forest planning. Awards include 2025 Institute of Energy and the Environment Excellence Recognition and 2020 Emerging Academic Leader designation.
Her advising focuses on graduate students in landscape architecture and urban ecology, with collaborative grants exploring nature-based solutions for water resilience and urban heat mitigation. She co-leads the Penn State Water Council and actively publishes in journals like Environmental Management and Land.
